[plug] WA PHP mailing list

[Sol]

The mailing list software is Mailman, which so far as I can tell is the
most widely deployed mail list software around. I use it myself.
Configuring things to put the months archives in order should be fairly
straightforward. I don't think that the software is the main constraint
here, but rather, the less-than-non-existant amount of spare time that
the list admin has to see to these tasks. At least, that's my guess FWIW.

/sol



> On Fri, 31 Dec 2004, Leon Brooks wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2004 06:55:52 +0800
> > From: Leon Brooks <leon at brooks.fdns.net>
> > Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
> > To: Perth Linux User Group <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
> > Subject: [plug] WA PHP mailing list
> > 
> > For those who love a language with a function for every occasion:
> > 
> >     http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/phpwestoz
> > 
> > Cheers; Leon
> > 
> 
> Looked for the list archive - "404 Not found on this server".
> 
> In looking at the list archives for other lists hosted at 
> lists.linux.org.au, in the archives, the archives are ordered 
> alphabetically, so that for any given year (after the year that the 
> current ordering was implemented), December precedes February, which 
> precedes January. Similarly, November precedes October, which precedes 
> September.
> 
> >From memory, Leon, you are still a member of the Linux Australia 
> committee.
> 
> I do not know what list software is used for the lists hosted by 
> lists.linux.org.au, but the software used by Rootsweb for its genealogy 
> mailing lists, has what I think is a slightly better archiving system. 
> Rootsweb uses Smartlist from memory, and hosts about 26,000 lists, with 
> traffic for each list ranging from one message every few years, to 
> several hundred each day.
> 
> If, as an example, you go to the web page 
> http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/surname/n/nutter.html, for the Nutter 
> name list, at the bottom, you can see the links for the list archive, 
> providing both search (for each year) and browse (for each month) 
> facilities, with the order of the browse facility months, being 
> chronological, and not alphabetic..
> 
> Could you get an investigation into the possibility of switching the 
> list and/or archiving software, for the lists hosted by 
> lists.linux.org.au, to improve the archiving of the lists?
> 
> -- 
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> ..............
> 
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>  you'll know what the answer means."
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>   published by Pan Books, 1992 
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